Apple - PowerBook G4

Never has professional-quality DVD burning on the go been as affordable as it is with this new batch of 12-inch, 15-inch and 17-inch SuperDrive-equipped PowerBook G4 models.

When Apple first introduced the SuperDrive on high-end Power Mac desktop systems, DVD recording systems typically cost over $15,000. Suddenly, thanks to the SuperDrive and iDVD software, DVD-burning capabilities were within the reach of all Power Mac customers.

But could the legendary SuperDrive be engineered into a notebook as slim as the PowerBook G4? The answer was an emphatic "yes"; and when the first SuperDrive-equipped PowerBook G4 was announced, it won an instant following.

Maybe the biggest news this time around is how affordable we’ve made DVD burning across the line. Starting at just $1799, these SuperDrive-equipped PowerBook G4 models gives you the best medium out there to distribute your movies and other digital media content.

Imagine what you can do with your SuperDrive
The SuperDrive-equipped PowerBook G4 lets you add professional-quality DVD production to your skill-set. Besides outstanding production values, the DVD format lets you add scads of bonus material — like digital still photos, interviews, soundbites, theme music and in-depth background information — to your movies and presentations. The SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) lets you read and burn music and data CDs, as well as DVDs that can be played in most consumer DVD players. The SuperDrive plays DVD movies — the kind you buy or rent — and writes to 4.7-gigabyte DVD-R discs, and it reads CDs and writes to CD-R and CD-RW disks.

Better still, the SuperDrive-equipped PowerBook G4 is compatible across the board, supporting DVD-Video, DVD-ROM and DVD-R, as well as CD-ROM, CD-Audio, CD-R, CD-RW, CD Bridge, CD Extended, CD Mixed Mode and Photo CD media.

Two ways to create your own DVDs
You can use two software applications to create your own DVDs, and they both come from Apple: iDVD and DVD Studio Pro. iDVD (included on your SuperDrive-equipped PowerBook G4) gives you a simple, one-window interface for assembling DVDs with drag-and-drop ease of use. DVD Studio Pro is a high-end DVD authoring application designed to satisfy the most demanding perfectionist. Both applications come with QuickTime MPEG encoding capabilities that have stunned the DVD publishing industry.

DVD Archiving

Data archiving on CD and DVD
Optical discs are ideal for backup because they offer huge capacity in a format that’s both easy to store and lasts a long time. CDs can hold up to 650MB of data, more than 450 times as much as a floppy disk. DVDs can store a mind-boggling 4.7GB of data, the equivalent of about 18 Zip 250 disks or 3200 floppy disks. (In case you’re interested, that’s a stack of floppies over 40 feet high.) With this kind of capacity, you can easily back up your portfolio, your entire digital photo collection, up to 90 minutes of video or thousands of MP3 files — and store them safely for years.

CD and DVD burning made simple
As a creative professional, you want to spend your time creating things that delight people, not figuring out how your tools work. Apple understands. That’s why data disc burning is integrated into Mac OS X with the powerful Disc Burner feature. Instead of going through a series of complicated steps, you simply drag your files onto the new disc’s icon and eject the disc. Mac OS X takes over from there, automatically burning the disc before ejecting it.

The power of iDVD 3
iDVD 3 gives you a simple one-window interface for assembling your DVDs. As part of iLife, it accepts digital video directly from iMovie 3, audio files from iTunes 3 and digital photos from iPhoto 2. iDVD uses the power of QuickTime and makes any number of clips, menus, slide shows and buttons for navigation purposes. iDVD sets MPEG encoding parameters automatically to ensure the best quality, encodes projects to MPEG and (perhaps most important) starts writing the disc when you click the Burn button. In addition to the number of professionally designed background images the software comes with, iDVD also lets you use your own pictures as backgrounds for menus. And there’s an important additional benefit for pro users: with AppleScript and iDVD 3 you can now automate the tedious chore of creating dailies or sending off a sampler to a client.

DVD Studio Pro 2
Want high-end, high-precision DVD authoring tools with push-it-to-the-limit functionality? You want DVD Studio Pro 2. This cutting-edge application gets around the high price of DVD recorders by letting you create, test and play your projects on your computer — before sending them out to a service bureau for writing to disc. DVD projects authored with DVD Studio Pro can include every feature the DVD-Video standard allows — including motion or still menus, web links, multiple language tracks, up to 99 video tracks (each enhanced with up to 9 different angles), 8 separate audio streams and 32 subtitle streams.

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